[Sca-cooks] Re: Books for Cooks at British Library

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Cindy M. Renfrow:
>Dear Master A, et. al,
>
>Before you all get your shorts in a knot over this translation of 
>Forme of Cury, I'd just like to say that whoever their translator 
>is, he or she is carrying over errors made by Samuel Pegge in 1780.
>
>For example, the translation of ew ardant as hot water was made in 
>his footnote.
>
>Greg Lindahl & I have webbed a facsimile of this page at 
>http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/foc/FoC127small.html
>Pegge's entire Forme of Cury can be found at http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/foc/
>
>Also, Pegge's Forme of Cury has been transcribed by the good folks 
>of Project Gutenberg and can be found at: 
>http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext05/8cury10.txt
>
>
>See also: http://culinaryhistory.org/ for a project to establish an 
>online searchable library of old culinary works. Help wanted -- 
>hint, hint.
>
>I think the British Library is to be applauded for their efforts & 
>encouraged to do more. Please keep your comments polite & supportive.

No disagreement here. I merely pointed out what appeared to be an 
error which forced me to admit to the possibility of others being 
hidden away somewhere, without investment of emotional energy, value 
judgement or opinion on my part. That, of course, is why having the 
original text is helpful. I'm sure if Pegge actually tried to cook 
from these recipes, he might have interpreted some of them 
differently.

But perhaps we, as a community, do occasionally show a tendency to 
taste blood in the water and go into a frenzy of criticism, and it's 
probably something that it would make us better people to watch out 
for...

Adamantius
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